TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, Volume VII, Issue 719, 9 October 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(Per Press Agency.') LATEST FKOM 7 " ATTSTKALIA. ♦ [By Submarine Cable,] Sydney, October 7. The customs revenue for the past quarter shows an increase of nearly a quarter of a million on the corresponding quarter of last year.

Melbourne, October 7. About 100 diggers left for New Zealand yesterday by the Alhambra. The Media, from Newcastle to Oeelong, fell in with the disabled Southern Cross in the dark. Thought she was signalling for a pilot, and was unaware that she wanted assistance. Plyn and his wife have been arrested for the Wayambil murder. AEEIVAL OF THE SAN FBANCISCO MAIL. ♦ Auckland, October 8. The Australia has arrived from San Fran* cisco with the English and American mails. She left on the 13th of September. Passengers for Lyttelton—Mr and Mrs O. B. Taylor and family, M. Dixon. Cargo for Southern Ports—lo3l packages. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN NEWS. GENERAL SUMMARY. London, September 12. The Great Yorkshire Handicap was won by Bosaglier. A letter from Mr Stanley, dated May 19th, on Lake Victoria Nyanza, says nearly 100 lives have been sacrificed to hardship. The hop crops are good. The steamer Arbitrator, from New Orleans to Liverpool, Btruck an iceberg and foundered in twenty minutes. The crew were saved.

The Liverpool ship San Raphael was burnt off Cape Horn. The crew were saved after fearful sufferings. The new tunnel in Bishopsgate street has caved in. Five workmen were injured.

Several failures have occurred in the iron trade at Cleveland.

At Dundee they report great depression. Struberg and Co, tea and sugar merchants, have failed. In the case of Soloman and Co v the Governor and Government of New Zealand, an appeal by Mr Mackrell against the service of a writ, on the ground that the Governor and Government were not a corporation, Lords Justices Hellish, James, and Baggalley allowed the appeal with costs. Reinforcements are being sent to Cuba from Spain. The Government of Spain claims the credit of impartiality in suppressing public religious manifestations. The Lisbon monetary crisis has subsided. In Italy the Marquis of Guiseppi Montegeorgo, who forged Victor Emanuel's signature to a bill of exchange for 200,000, has been sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. In the attempted assassination of Prince Gortschakoff by an elderly lady belonging to the best society, its object was probably i o revenge the political persecution of her family. Consols, 95§, E. T. Tichel and Bradford Co, merchants, have failed for £70,000. Mark Lane Express says wheat has »d----vanced Is to 2s per quarter in London, despite foreign arrivals. Livebpool, September 12.

Wheat, 9s 6d to 9s 9d. The Loan and Mercantile Agency circular of August 24th says—Preserved meats—boiled mutton, 61bs ting, 5Jd to s£d per lb ; 21b tins, 7d to 7£d. Boiled beef, 61b tins, 6£d to 6Jd per lb ; 21b tins, 7Jd to 7£d. Arrived—Oamaru, from Port Chalmers, on July 30th ; May Queen, on August Ist- From Napier—Schiehallion, on August 3rd. From Lyttelton—Crusader, on August 11th. From Wellington—Hurunui, On August 14th. From Bluff—Otaki, on August 17th. Sailed—For Otago—White Eagle. For Wellington—Ocean Mail, on August 24th. To sail for Canterbury—Rangitikei, on Auguft 30th : Cardigan Castle, on September 27th ; Valparaiso, on September 7i;h. Foe Otago and Bluff—Avon, on August 30th ; Otaki, on September 30th. For Napier and Bluff—Waitara, on September 6th. AMERICAN; Yellow fever has occurred in New York. At Salt Lake all Brigham Young's vehicles and stock, worth 10,000 dollars, were seized to pay what is due to Ann Eliza. At Kansas, a religious sect called Cobbites, crazy from frenzy and starvation, committed atrocities.

A quarrel has occurred between Moody aDd Sankey. Moody appropriated over 6000 dollars, thanks offerings from converted sinners, and gave Sankey 1000 dollars. The latter threatens law proceedings. The Chicago committee are endeavoring to hush up the matter. Beecher'a counsel ias served notice for a change of venue &* the trial oi Moulton'e case against Beecher for malicious prosecution. , . « • Tweed has been arrested in Spam, at the request of tie American Government, under the estraditon treaty. He had escaped from Santiago uider the name of Decor. A.t the Ontenctial Rowing Match, London beat New 'ork in the professional four-oartd match bj sixteen seconds. Bagley beat Green of ucradon in the single scull race,

A fire in San Francisco has destroyed property worth 70,000 dole. The Sioux campaign haß ended, and the troops have gone into winter quarters. Rev Charles Clark is lecturing in Nevada on Charles Dickens. Mexican advices report that the Government are preparing to attack Diaz at Oajaca. The Government troops have gained a minor success. San Fkancisco. Flour. 4dols 50c to sdols 50c. Wheat, Idol 25c to 1 dol 55c. New Yobk. Wheat, Idol 25c to Idol 35c ; sperm oil. Idol 25c to Idol 30c ; whale, 53c to 58c ; winter bleached, 62c to 70c. At New Bedford, crude sperm oil, Idol 25c. At New York, refiued petroleum in good demand, cases steady at 29c to 30c. TDBKISH WAR. (Telegrams to September 12th.) The inquiries of the British House of Commons show that the reports of the atrocities in Bulgaria have not been in the least exaggerated. Children have been roasted alive and their flesh thrust down their parents' throats; pregnaat women have ripped up ; women and girls have been violated by thousands, and men impaled and skinned alive, flogged to death, and tortured in every conceivable manner, not alone by Bashi Bazouks, but to a greater extent by the regular troops, who were rewarded instead of punished for their cruelty. The English Secretary of Legation, and the American Secretary, sent to investigate the matter, report that 60,000 Christians, noncombatants, were murdered. The American Secretary suggests that a foreign Commission should see that the leaders of these outrages are hung. Thousands of bodies were strewn about in every direction, gna wed by dogs, and in a horrid state of putrefaction, with a few half-starved women sitting in the midst of them, bewailing the fate of their dear ones. One woman was found moaning over three small skulls, with hairs clinging to them, which she had in her lap. These revelations caused an intense feeling through England. Meetings were held in all the chief centres, which passed resolutions calling on the British Government to stay those atrocities. Canon Liddon, from the pulpit of St Paul's, said—" While they they were listening in that sacred building, the loud cry and bitter wail of anguish and despair was rising to heaven from thousands of desolate homes, from mothers and daughters whose whole future life would only be one long memory of agony and shame, What made the voice falter in speaking of the subject was that the Government to which Turkey was turning for support was free, humane, Christian England, If God was the same He had ever been, who hated cruelty, He would punish those who enacted and those who abetted it now as of old." John Bright stated in a letter to a public meeting at Bochdale, convened to protest against these cruelties, that England was the sole cause of these cruelties and the Servian war, as, but for her support, Turkey dared not have been guilty of them. Mr Gladstone, in a pamphleton.these atrocities, says the British name has been more seriously compromised in these deplorable events than was ever known before- He nrgen the peoplo to insist upon the Government excluding the Ottoman from the administrative control of Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Bulgaria, redeeming by this policy the honor of the British name. Lord Derby has written a letter saying that the Government will spare no effort to ascertain the exact truth, and be ready in common with the I other powers to take such action as the justice 1 of the case requires. =j The fighting between the Servians and the | Turks before Alexinatz, commenced on the | 18th August, and continued until the 4th of j September. The Servians gained several 3 snecesses, driving the Turks across to the j left bank of the Morava river. The fighting ] was hard with great slaughter on both sides, j the Russian volunteers specially distinguished ] themselves. It is stated that the Russian j officers drove the Servians to battle with the pistol and sabre, shooting down laggards remorselessly. The Servian loan was eagerly subscribed at St Petersburg. On September 3rd the Turks bombarded Alexinatz, and fired the town in several places. A r-evere fight ensued, in which two villages near Alexinatz, held by the Servians, were burned, and the engagement resulted in great disaster to the Servian army which became completely disorganised, j Alexinatz was crowded with the wounded j and mangled. A stampede from thence took 'place, and for ten miles on the road to Belgrade there was a compact moving mass of vehicles, cattle, and people running away as fast as possible. The British Ambassador presented a demand for the conclusion of an armistice, to be followed by negotiations of peace. The terra of the armistice demanded is one j month. England's declaration that if Turkey's refusal shall lead to armed foreign inter- j vention, the Porte must not reckon on the j British Government, caused surprise and disappointment. No secret was made that Russia was likely to interfere. It is asserted that slavery will be abolished. After this demand it is said that the Turkish Governraeut looked to Austria to repel Russian aggression. ;

Latest telegrams, date*! London, September 12th, says the Standard's despatch from Belgrade eaye, the answer of Turkey concerning the conditions of peace has been received, but it is not officially communicated. _ Russia will not permit Servia to accept it. The question is aow when will Russia throw off the mask and openly prosecute the war she is actually waging, white pretending to be merely the Servian's friend,

A Vienna special says that General Manterffe, who went on a mission to Warsaw, to persuade Eussia to check the warlike aspirations of her people, has received Prince Gortschakoff's reply to Germany laying dowD the conditions under which Russia will uphold peace under the present circumstances.

Tbe Belgrade correspondent of the Dally Neivs ia informed that over 3000 Russians of all grades are in the Servian army. INTEPJPROVINCIAL. „ , , „ . , AXjr |KLAND, October 7. Sailed—Canterbury, fo* Lytteltonj Hawea, for South, The wreck of the Strathna T o r wa3 m \s for £2, Westport, October 7. The certificate of the captain of v.b,, Matau has been suspended for three inontM Great blame is attached to the Wellington Customs authorities for permitting the vessel

to leave port with so many passengers, and lumbered with deck cargo. Wellington, October 9.

His Excellency the Governor has been seriously ill for over a week, and though there is now a slight improvement, he will be confined to the house for a couple of weeks longer. Mr G. E. Barton appeared before the Chief Justice this morning, but no conclusion was arrived at, the case being adjourned till tomorrow.

Arrived—Enterprise, from Lyttelton. Port Chalmers, October 7.

Great excitement prevails here. Captain Gibbs, of the Tbomasina McLellan, is charged by two of the seamen with keeping the first chained to the mizentopsail sheet in a standing position for seven hours, and the second man chained to the stanchion in the lower hold on the top of casks of cement for five weeks, with no ventilation or light. The case will be decided on Monday.

Last night several of the McLellan's crew beat and threw William Jewiss, waterman into the bay.

Dunedin, October 7,

Meßsrs Reid and Duncan have received a cable telegram from San Francisco, dated the 25th of September, re an advance in the value of salmon equal to Is 3d per dozen over the quotation by last mail, The mar* kets are firm.

The manager of the Union Steam Company has been instructed to convey to Captain Worsp the terms of a resolution passed at a directors' meeting, to the effect that they regret the loss of his services, and their entire satisfaction at the manner in which he has performed his duties. There have been several returns from the Kumara. The rush has romewhat abated.